New Corsair 900D "Godzilla" and 200R Cases

avddreamr said:
It's to wide, so all I see is a lot of wasted space.
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You said it yorself "What I would give for an 11-12 inch wide case". The M8 is only a inch wider at 13 inches. and it'll do exactly what you want. two 360 rads on the bottom of the case :)
 
pwrusr said:
You said it yorself "What I would give for an 11-12 inch wide case". The M8 is only a inch wider at 13 inches. and it'll do exactly what you want. two 360 rads on the bottom of the case :)
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Uh, M8 specs say it's 15" wide...

However, the SM8 is only 11.18" wide and the SMH10 is only 11.25" wide. lol "only..."
 
FaRKle0079 said:
Uh, M8 specs say it's 15" wide...

However, the SM8 is only 11.18" wide and the SMH10 is only 11.25" wide. lol "only..."
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Woops, my bad! thought it was 13 for some reason. Thanks for that correction :eek:

I still say the M8 is likely your best bet if you want a double wide type case.
There's also the old school yy cube case:
http://www.yycase.com/yy-0221.htm

I should stop doe, I don't want to high jack this thread from the subject of the 900D. :eek:
 
You need 240-276mm two put 120mm radiators next to each other depending on which ones you select.

So yeah 15" is like 381mm.. so A hell of a lot of wasted space.

I Might be the only one, I'm not crazy about the design of caselabs. IF i'm going to pay that much money for a case, it has to be aesthetically pleasing. Otherwise I'll just 8020 it, with plate aluminum.
 
Official Sneak Peak via OCN:

900D

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There is one 480 at the bottom and two 240 rads inside the case.
You can see one of the 240s at the top in the window.

It's a Corsair case, of course it will fit a H100, not that it should be used in a case like this in the first place.
 
Robertmarcus said:
I dont see any 120mm rad support up top for their h100? Maybe just the angle
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No set of feet at the center of the case?

Will there be a solid door available, for those of us :rolleyes: :( who don't need a window into their systems?
 
What an incredible monolithic design.


I'd want it to play the theme from Kubric's "2001: A Space Odyssey" when the door opened...
 
x509 said:
No set of feet at the center of the case?

Will there be a solid door available, for those of us :rolleyes: :( who don't need a window into their systems?
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This part worries me. Either that box will warp under its own weight...or it is going to be a 50lb steel chassis. Or both.

Now if it was available in brushed aluminum...that would be smexy.
 
common Corsair I thought the next step will be an ITX gaming case not a bigger TJ7
 
this is a great looking case... But I want something kinda like a yy server cube only with better cooling
 
According to Corsair George, it will be a 41lb steel and aluminum chassis. If you take the time to find the other images he's posted you'll see those case feet are integrated into the case and are massive...

It's not going to warp - those possibilities are taken into account during engineering. A CM Cosmos II, for example, weighs 47.3lbs.
 
Looks like integrated side intakes in the front.

I would have liked to see a full 50/50 door on the front that's removable.
It gives the user to either show the drive bays and intake fans or not.
 
wave1337 said:
Will there be another 480 rad on the other side of the case?
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Yes, you can fit two at the bottom.

Corsair George just posted that the case has three intake fans in the front. Oh my.

For those concerned with aircooling, the case has comes with three 120mm fans mounted in front. That aluminum fascia is "floating", like a speaker grill over a high-end speaker. The surround area around that is about an inch on each side, and almost two inches from the front fans, which gives them plenty of room to intake cool air, and the front aluminum fascia comes off easily to change the front dust filter or access the three 120mm fans in front.
Pre-drilled for radiator, of course.
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Two 480s at the bottom, 360 in the front, another 360 or 480 at the top. :eek:
 
OK, OK, OK....

:D

I'm really hoping for space to appear in my budget now. I've been wanting to build an optimized for high performance (yet still reasonably quiet) air cooled rig for some time. This should be the case!

Excellent news, IMHO.
 
Bbq said:
And how much is this going to be ?

steel :(
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Hopefully less than $380.

The comparable case is the CaseLabs SMH10, which is all aluminum and costs $499 + accessories + fans/filters + shipping.
CaseLabs cases need additional parts, and really can't be used to it's full potential out of the box. The 900D on the other hand will be compete out of the box, just add more fans.

So ~$380 vs $600-800 is a big difference in cost, but quality will be top notch with both companies.
 
One of the great things about the 800d was the finish. Hopefully this has the same quality.

Shame I find these cases a bit too big for my taste/rig as I'm not really a huge fan of their midtowers.

Looking cool, Corsair.

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Yes, you can fit two at the bottom.

Corsair George just posted that the case has three intake fans in the front. Oh my.



Two 480s at the bottom, 360 in the front, another 360 or 480 at the top. :eek:
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Curious where the PSU fits with all that rad in the bottom. I assumed it would be like a Temjin.

Also, I hope that is smoked glass and not just the angle and lighting :D
 
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The case in that picture has a 60mm thick 480 on top in push/pull, a 30mm thick 480 on bottom side one in push/pull, a 240 in the front in push, and a 240 on the bottom side two in push/pull.

Two loops.
 
Are all three front fans located in the motherboard area, or is the lower front fan in the bottom compartment?
 
WorldExclusive said:
Are all three front fans located in the motherboard area, or is the lower front fan in the bottom compartment?
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The lower fan blows over the bottom compartment where one of the drive cage mount locations is.

The top two blow into the main motherboard chamber.
 
Redbeard said:
The case in that picture has a 60mm thick 480 on top in push/pull, a 30mm thick 480 on bottom side one in push/pull, a 240 in the front in push, and a 240 on the bottom side two in push/pull.

Two loops.
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I assume the PSU is sideways, below the midplate?
 
Never seen this case till just now. The overall aesthetics, especially the floating front fascia, oozes Corsair styling and build quality. Looks fantastic. Price-wise, most people will be better off with a steel/aluminum hybrid, else a case as omgHUGElol as the 900d would easily be in excess of $500 and possibly pushing past $700 territory.

Looking forward to seeing more pixs from CES. Also looking forward to Corsair making an Obsidian-like mITX/uATX tower that supports a full-size GPU and 1-2 ssds. Build it Redbeard, we will come!
 
Officially we now know it will be less than $400. How much less is the question.
Corsair having multiple re-tooling samples isn't a positive sign. They'll get it perfect, but at an additional cost.

The FT02 had an extra tooling sample to correct an issue that raised the price $40.
Hopefully the next sample is perfect to keep the cost down and the release date near.
 
WorldExclusive said:
Officially we now know it will be less than $400. How much less is the question.
Corsair having multiple re-tooling samples isn't a positive sign. They'll get it perfect, but at an additional cost.

The FT02 had an extra tooling sample to correct an issue that raised the price $40.
Hopefully the next sample is perfect to keep the cost down and the release date near.
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It's very common to have tooling iterations. T1, T2, T3, etc, don't mean re-tooling from scratch, more like modifying the tool.

For example, the 140mm fan mounts were spaced incorrectly for some radiators, so we changed the screw holes to oval shaped holes to accommodate 280 and 420mm radiators with 15mm-18mm spacing.

This doesn't add to the cost to the end-user.

If somebody told you a re-tooling issue cost the end-user $40, then I don't know what to tell you. The only way that can happen is if they significantly change the design or swap out materials. $40 retail is probably $10-$20 cost for Silverstone, so for a tooling change to cost that much it would have had to have been HUGELY significant, or they amortize their tooling costs over a very low volume. None of our tooling iterations have ever changed the price of a case significantly. Only design changes like "Let's add another hard drive cage" or "what if we put all 140mm fans instead of all 120mm fans" or something. Those changes cost money. But even that wouldn't be significant to that level.
 
The Unibody for the FT02 became difficult to shape Tony said. The process to bend 2mm+ thick aluminum into a U-Shape cost more than anticipated. Hence ~$40 increase.

Man did I rant about that, but I ended up buying the case three different times. lol
 
WorldExclusive said:
The Unibody for the FT02 became difficult to shape Tony said. The process to bend 2mm+ thick aluminum into a U-Shape cost more than anticipated. Hence ~$40 increase.

Man did I rant about that, but I ended up buying the case three different times. lol
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Ah, I see. Must be a pretty expensive multi-step process with a low yield, then. Or they had to use some more expensive materials.
 
WorldExclusive said:
One last question and I'll wait until CES:

Removable motherboard tray?
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Nope.There comes a point where that's fairly useful, when building your system outside the case was much more easily done than inside the case. But with these large cases you give up a lot of rigidity (motherboard tray is a large part of the structural strength) or you add a lot in cost, and for questionable benefits.

We take the view at Corsair that it's better to spend the money on making it easier to build the thing as it sits than using a removable motherboard tray. Some will disagree, that's fine. I expect there will be opposing viewpoints. But there's a reason removable motherboard trays are rarer and rarer these days - a lot of the newer case designs make it easier to build the thing in-place than ever before. Especially with modern cable requirements (2 to each GPU, at least one for the CPU, one for the 24-pin, front I/O panel cables and USB/Audio ports...)
 
Wow, I love this case. I hate the FT-02 at the moment and I thought it was sexy... But this man oh man, I am in love with it from what I have seen so far. I hope that this case works well with the H100, because if I bought this I would probably upgrade my H50 to a H100.
 
How can you compare a FT02 to something like a 900D? They're about as polar opposite as cases go, especially in terms of WC.
 
DarkStryke said:
How can you compare a FT02 to something like a 900D? They're about as polar opposite as cases go, especially in terms of WC.
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They're both minimalist and look cool?
I don't really see how the FT02 is that different to watercool. It can natively support a 360 rad and a 120. Which is pretty much what the corsair supports at stock.

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Oops. 900d, not 800d..... sorry -____-
Yeah, they aren't very comparable. I'm not sure why I had the 800d in my mind when this thread is about the 900d.

I'll make my post useful by asking something I wanted to for while:
Is the finish similar to the 800d or the newer cases? I don't really like the finish on the 650d and others but the 800d's finish is awesome and very hardy from experience.
 
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